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Running Machine
(a 30 minute performance) "Running Machine" (a 30 minute performance). A running machine has been transformed into a lectern from which to lecture. As the performer exercises her spoken text is progressively interrupted and distorted, by exhaustion and loss of breath.This artwork shifts the focus from the notion of performance to a concern with performativity, as witnessed in the aesthetics of the work. In these works the "lived body" is received in varying ways, as in through the concentration of listening to the body, and witnessing the live physical transformation of the body |
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Running Machine
is part of More Funny Feelings, Watts recent tour of a
Running Machine kindly Loaned by John Lewis of Newcastle |
| Lisa
watts is an English artist who has developed a wealth of original
and acclaimed work. Trained in the Visual Arts she uses various disciplines
in her practice, such as, performance, moving image, photography,
and digitalimaging which often involves her own body. If a piece of
her work is not a performance event it frequently still uses moments
of performativity and that can mean the involvement of other artists,
or non art trained people. Her art practice has included training
with an escapologist, signing up with a local modelling agency, and
holding a residency in a gym.
She first showed her work publicly whilst a student with the acclaimed "Breadmaking", at the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, 1990. Since then she has shown performative work at the Serpentine gallery, London, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, The Root Festival, Hull Timed Based Arts, Hull, Tramway, Glasgow, Prema Arts Centre, near Bristol and The Greenroom, Manchester, as well as Dublin, Ireland and Hamburg, Germany. Chanel 4 broadcast a short documentary about a digital photographic work that was made collaboratively with artist Clare Charnley titled "Muslces" in 1998. Her film work "Bun" has been shown globally, including Eat my shorts film festival, Canada, Bombay, Mexico, and broadcast in several countries in Europe as in Spain, Italy and France. |
